Here's a cool feature I just discovered: colorable console text.
Download
TweakUI,
the venerable expose-all-the-secret-features tool from Microsoft.
On the Command Prompt page is the setting Enable Selection Coloring.
When enabled, you can select a chunk of text in a command window,
then hit Alt+0 through Alt+9 to change the text color, or Ctrl+0 through Ctrl+9
to change the background color. The changes stick, so you can mark up
command output, or any other console window.
Very handy.